Major Battery Drain Issue | STOCK - Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II

Within the last week I have been experiencing major battery drain from 'sdcard' for no reason. Here is a screenshot of my phone last night which shows 'sdcard' as the largest battery drain '29%' over a total off charger time of nearly 14 hours. The 'sdcard' details claim that the uptime for the 'sdcard' is only a mere 45 minutes. This means that in 45 minutes the 'sdcard' was able to drain 25% of a full 3100mAh battery! I barely used my phone all day and yet the 'sdcard' issue occurs on its own. I decided to try to not touch my phone today / use any apps and the same exact issue happened. The 'sdcard' accounts for around 30% of battery drain and the total up time is exactly the same 45 minutes again. Here is tonight's screenshot.
I am running Verizon Galaxy Note 2 with 4.1.1 stock (turned down the recent OTA) with only root access, no unlocked bootloader or custom ROM installed.
How many other Galaxy users out there are experiencing this issue? Any current workarounds besides the factory reset, card wipe & reformatting?
I have been having great battery life since I got the phone in early December and now have my battery draining about 30% faster than normal. What happened?

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I think its something you installed disguised as "sd card." Sd card doesnt even show up when I look at my battery.
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BoostedB18C said:
I think its something you installed disguised as "sd card." Sd card doesnt even show up when I look at my battery.
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Absolutely nothing new installed. And what is installed is all legitimate applications.

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Have you installed BetterBatteryStats?
That will give you a more complete picture of what is keeping the phone awake, etc.
Do you have any sync services turned on?
What about downloads that are trying to complete?
Have you checked to see if you are burning data?

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Yeah I have never even seen sd card in my battery list.
Install better battery stats and track it down.
Will be interesting to see what that turns out to be.

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I have a feeling your sd card is probably having issues. That's the only way I can see that coming up in your battery stats if you haven't installed anything. Take your sd card out for a day and see how it performs without it.

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Interested to hear a few more details. I have loved every second with this phone until about the last 3 or 4 days. I have experienced multiple reboots along with pulling my phone out of my pocket only to find it off, with only a battery pull being able to get it to reboot. The phone also seems sluggiah at times. Which is not normal for this phone. Praying its not SDS.
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purged363506 said:
Have you installed BetterBatteryStats?
That will give you a more complete picture of what is keeping the phone awake, etc.
Do you have any sync services turned on?
What about downloads that are trying to complete?
Have you checked to see if you are burning data?
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I am going to test out the app in a day and I will post back the results.
Just Gmail which has never been an issue.
Cleared all downloads, so there is absolutely nothing.
No data burn at all, but I am on wifi 85% of the day.
Sir-Lancelot said:
Will be interesting to see what that turns out to be.
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It sure will!
*Madmoose* said:
I have a feeling your sd card is probably having issues. That's the only way I can see that coming up in your battery stats if you haven't installed anything. Take your sd card out for a day and see how it performs without it.
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The SD card is one of those 64GB class 10 nice ones that I would not expect to fail. I will try reformatting / wiping it after I try the battery app.
ksizzle9 said:
Interested to hear a few more details. I have loved every second with this phone until about the last 3 or 4 days. I have experienced multiple reboots along with pulling my phone out of my pocket only to find it off, with only a battery pull being able to get it to reboot. The phone also seems sluggiah at times. Which is not normal for this phone. Praying its not SDS.
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I loved the phone too, but I am also experiencing a bit of sluggishness from time to time. I also found a bizarre bug where I cannot manually turn off driving mode so I am forced to run S-Voice 24/7 in order to tell it to turn off driving mode. If i do not use S-Voice to turn it off I have difficulty using speakerphone while making calls or hearing people when they call me. Also the alarm clock shutting itself off after a few rings is a major annoyance. I cannot rely on the phone to wake me up as it just decides to shut the alarm off after 30 seconds or so. I am still trying to love it but keep running into issues. I am contemplating selling it and getting the next galaxy for the better screen.
Thanks for all the input I will try to reply back to here with some updates!

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I bet your sdcard is crap. Back it up, reformat, see if problem goes away.
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1ManWolfePack said:
I bet your sdcard is crap. Back it up, reformat, see if problem goes away.
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This...that would be my first step. I've had strange behavior with a bad sd card before....though, never had battery drain from it.

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dougstoner said:
This...that would be my first step. I've had strange behavior with a bad sd card before....though, never had battery drain from it.
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If it's a class 1-2 and the gallery keeps running media scan, that could be a cause. Actually, I bet that's where all the drain is - media scan, but that could affect any class of card.
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1ManWolfePack said:
If it's a class 1-2 and the gallery keeps running media scan, that could be a cause. Actually, I bet that's where all the drain is - media scan, but that could affect any class of card.
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That actually makes sense. I think step one is backup, reformat, and restore. If that doesn't help, try a different card or without a card at all. If it still is doing it after all this, then it's a software issue.
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Wow get this,
I removed my SDCard and rebooted and guess what shows up under battery drain still.
SDCARD!
This is reallllllllly bizzare. It makes me think 100% that it is a software bug.
The battery drain it is pulling is over 40% at the moment!

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1ManWolfePack said:
If it's a class 1-2 and the gallery keeps running media scan, that could be a cause. Actually, I bet that's where all the drain is - media scan, but that could affect any class of card.
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Im using a sandisk class 2 and im not seeing any issues with batteru drain. Just throwing my 2 cents out there
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Any clue what this means? The app is not very user friendly.

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Heh, actually, now that I think about it, stock rom would consider the internal storage the sdcard. I'd try a factory reset an hope whatever is wrong there is fixed.

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*Madmoose* said:
Heh, actually, now that I think about it, stock rom would consider the internal storage the sdcard. I'd try a factory reset an hope whatever is wrong there is fixed.
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Should I do the factory reset through the menu or through android recovery? Never tried doing the one through the settings menu.
Will this bring back the the NFL and other bloatware apps that I used root to remove? I want it like fresh out of the box new if possible.
Also does it matter that I am rooted? Root only no unlocked bootloader.
I sound like a noob but I have never done this with stock I used to run custom ROM's 24/7 for 3 years(droid incredible) and just want to make sure things still operate the way I think they do! :good:
Thanks!
*now it is saying I have voicemails when I have no new voicemails! The device is getting rediculously buggy it seems like*

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ohiwastedmylife said:
Should I do the factory reset through the menu or through android recovery? Never tried doing the one through the settings menu.
Will this bring back the the NFL and other bloatware apps that I used root to remove? I want it like fresh out of the box new if possible.
Also does it matter that I am rooted? Root only no unlocked bootloader.
I sound like a noob but I have never done this with stock I used to run custom ROM's 24/7 for 3 years(droid incredible) and just want to make sure things still operate the way I think they do! :good:
Thanks!
*now it is saying I have voicemails when I have no new voicemails! The device is getting rediculously buggy it seems like*
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I would do the factory reset from recovery just to be safe. And that bloat you removed should stay gone. It can't magically put stuff back into /system. All a factory reset does is wipe the /data partition, wipe your /cache partition, and erase the /sdcard/android_secure. Backup your sdcard and format that at the same time. I would verify you have your device backed up to google too so when you boot up and sign back into your google account it should download some settings and apps back automatically.
Edit: I do not have this device, so you may want to have someone else verify this. But I see no reason any of my advice could harm your device.

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hlxanthus said:
I would do the factory reset from recovery just to be safe. And that bloat you removed should stay gone. It can't magically put stuff back into /system. All a factory reset does is wipe the /data partition, wipe your /cache partition, and erase the /sdcard/android_secure. Backup your sdcard and format that at the same time. I would verify you have your device backed up to google too so when you boot up and sign back into your google account it should download some settings and apps back automatically.
Edit: I do not have this device, so you may want to have someone else verify this. But I see no reason any of my advice could harm your device.
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Thanks for the input. I found the get back to out of box stock guide in another post so I am going to go that route I guess. I am concerned there is something wrong with the internals of my device and want to verify it before I go trying to get a return.
I have a huge list of bugs I have encountered while on the stock software and I want to see if they pop up again after hard hard flash reset.

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What does the partial wakelocks show?
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